A small plane that crashed in 2023 carrying moose meat in Alaska, killing the husband of former U.S. Rep. Mary Peltola, was overweight and encountered drag from antlers mounted outside, the NTSB says.

A small plane that crashed in rural Alaska in 2023, killing the husband of a congresswoman, was weighed down by too much moose meat and faced drag from a set of antlers mounted on its right wing ...

An Alaska plane crash that killed the husband of former U.S. Rep. Mary Peltola (D-AK) was likely caused by excess moose meat weight and antlers on board, according to a report from the National ...

The small Piper PA-18 plane had taken a group of hunters to a remote wilderness area near St. Mary’s, Alaska on September 12, 2023, where they killed a moose, the report said.

An Alaska plane crash that killed the husband of former U.S. Rep. Mary Peltola (D-AK) was likely caused by excess moose meat weight and antlers on board, according to a report from the National ...

A plane that crashed and killed the husband of then-U.S. Rep. Mary Peltola, D-Alaska, two years ago was overloaded with moose meat and antlers, federal investigators said this week.

Alaska Congresswoman’s Husband Dies in Plane Accident Involving Moose Meat After Alaskan Congresswoman Mary Peltola’s husband Eugene Peltola Jr. died in a 2023 plane crash, an official report ...

The small Piper PA-18 plane had taken a group of hunters to a remote wilderness area near St. Mary’s, Alaska on September 12, 2023, where they killed a moose, the report said.

The plane crashed shortly after takeoff in a mountainous area of southwestern Alaska on Sept. 12, 2023. The pilot, Eugene Peltola Jr., 57, died in the crash.